Declarations
Criminal Convictions
Supporting the rehabilitation of offenders – Helping you to achieve.
If you are applying for a course at the College, you are required to indicate if you have unspent criminal convictions or if you are currently being investigated by the Police.
The College has lots of ways to support students who have criminal convictions and having a conviction would not necessarily stop you from studying with the College. The information you provide will firstly help us to identify any support needs that you may have and secondly to ensure that both you and others can be safeguarded at the College.
By disclosing your unspent criminal conviction, you are giving consent to the College to make enquiries with the Youth Justice Service, National Probation Services or the Police. The College’s Safeguarding Unit will contact you to discuss this. The information you provide will be strictly private and confidential and will only be processed by the Colleges Safeguarding Unit and will have the highest level of information security.
Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), certain convictions may become spent after an appropriate period. If your offence is now spent, you are not required to give us any further information. More information about the rules relating to this can be found at: Disclosing criminal records when applying to college | Nacro
Declaration
When you complete and submit this application form, you are expressly giving your permission for the College to process your data, including sensitive and personal information.
The information you supply will be used to enable us to meet the statutory and mandatory responsibilities outlined by the Government, including creating a unique learner number (ULN). When necessary, the information will be shared with the Education and Skills Funding Agency and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
You can read more about this in the Student Privacy Notice.
